TAADES504A
Develop and evaluate e-learning resources
This unit specifies the competency required to develop and evaluate e-learning resources based on an agreed design concept.
Competency Field
Learning Design
Application of the Unit
Learning resources are designed to enhance and support the effectiveness of the learning process. They provide guidance, materials, learning and assessment activities, and relevant information that address the competencies/learning outcomes to be achieved by the learner.
An e-learning resource is any learning resource that is assisted by electronic technology. This includes but is not limited to web-based and computer-based resources, virtual classrooms, digital collaboration, Internet, Intranet, Extranet, interactive CD-ROM, hand-held computers and satellite broadcast.
In the TAA04 Training and Assessment Training Package, learning resources are defined as learning products that have been specifically developed to address a substantive area of learning such as a Training Package, a qualification or a learning program. E-learning resources are used to support e-based learning or blended delivery and may be used in conjunction with print-based or other learning resources. The complexity of the e-resource will vary depending on its focus, type and audience. The emphasis is on the clarity and structure of the learning resource and how the technology supports this, not the technology itself.
This unit focuses on developing an e-learning resource following a design concept. It involves working with others to develop and evaluate a prototype, improving the e-learning resource based on the evaluation and then working with others to develop the finished resource. It addresses this competency from the perspective of contributing to the development of content, not the technical specifications. However, technological literacy to work with technical experts is necessary.
The competency of creating the design concept is separately addressed in TAADES503A Research and design e-learning resources. Separate competency standards have been developed because these two functions are often undertaken separately and by different team members. Where competency is required across both the design and development phase co-learning and co-assessment is recommended.
This unit has some content overlap with TAADES502A Design and develop learning resources which focuses on print-based learning resources but it is differentiated by the technological skills, knowledge and application required to perform this work. It is recommended that individuals undertake TAADES502A Design and develop learning resources before commencing TAADES503A A Research and design e-learning resources or this unit of competency.
This competency would normally be achieved in a collaborative working environment involving a project team that develops the complete e-learning resource.
The prototype developed for evaluation may not be a fully functional e-learning resource. Parts of it may be in detailed draft or presentation form, such as a storyboard, with supporting information yet to be built into an e-learning resource.
The competency specified in this unit is typically required by instructional designers, learning product developers, trainers/ facilitators, training consultants.
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Display Unit
- Reconstruct the unit from the database and display it as a plain HTML page.
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This has several advantages over the cut-and-paste from PDF option, in that hard carriage returns are removed, and multi-column data is stored in tables. You do miss out on some formatting, but the data is otherwise mostly unchanged, the main difference being that terms and definitions in the range statement's variable/scope list displayed are in alphabetical order here (but not in the original).
- ?Training O2 Resources
- community submitted and rated resources for the unit
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A social news gathering site built around training package units. Students and trainers can submit links to on-line resources which will be voted on by other site users; commented on, and promoted (or not) depending on the resource's usefulness.
- ?TiddlyWiki
- Chose 'Save file as...' from the popup and get a personal, stand-alone student journal for the unit.
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This link will prompt you to download a TiddlyWiki for the unit. If you're not sure what a wiki is, the wikipedia is a good example, and it has a good entry on wikis too. TiddlyWikis are special cases of wikis in that they can be saved and edited on a local drive. You will need to save the TiddlyWiki onto your hard drive, and if you're using Internet Explorer, you'll need to allow JavaScript to run for the file (Firefox, Opera and Safari users shouldn't have this trouble).
- ?Assessment Template
- generate a spreadsheet for marking this unit in a classroom environment
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This link will create a csv file that can be opened with a spreadsheet application. It lists all the performance criteria and includes some calculations for a final grade. Without any indication of weighting for each criteria in the training package, I've had to allocate each an equal mark. You may need to adjust this :-)
- ?Evidence Guide
- create an evidence guide for individual students to fill in
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This will generate a simple html page with a table for students to enter details of evidence they would like assessed as meeting the unit's performance criteria. You can copy this page into a word processor or print it out from your web browser for each student.
- ?Keywords
- a tag cloud of the keywords for the unit with links to on-line resouces for each word
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A machine generated list of links to resouces that may be useful when teaching this unit. Includes links to creative commons licensed images, wikipedia articles, and sites listed on del.icio.us
- ?XML
- pick up an XML version of the unit that will allow you to generate stuff directly from the data (like your own assessment templates and evidence sheets)
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This link will upload an XML representation of the unit. This should allow you to extract and use the information in a flexible manner, dropping the bits and pieces in where you need them.
I hope the tags are self explanatory, but drop me a line if you're having problems. I'd also love to see any novel new uses people come up with (and if you write a bit of PHP, a schema, DTD or XSLT to manipulate the data please send it to me so that I can include it here)
- ?MediaWiki and WikiSpaces formats
- mark up the unit in a wiki format, ready to paste into the wikiversity or wikispaces
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These links will create wikimedia and wikispaces versions of the unit. This should allow you to cut and paste the information into any wikimedia type wiki, such as the wikipedia or wikiversity or a wikispaces wiki.